History Webcomic / MarryMyHusband

* FakePregnancy: [[spoiler: Sumin does this when she's backed into a corner after the salad kit incident, knowing Minhwan's conservative family will force him to marry her instead of Jiwon. Jiwon sees through this, though, because she knows Minhwan can't have babies. Minhwan finds out about the ruse during the press conference, which leads to his discovery of being infertile later]].

* MeetTheInLaws: When Minhwan has Jiwon have dinner with his parents for the first time in this timeline, Jiwon does everything in her power to make it not go well, from dressing like an in-law's nightmare to saying she's not going to work or have kids. It really goes south when they hit her BerserkButton and badmouth her father.

** [[spoiler: Minhwan's father blames Jiwon over his family's downfall, just because she wouldn't marry his son. Jiwon shuts him down by pointing out he played bench-sitter as his wife tormented Sumin over her extreme conservative views, in turn driving Sumin to start a chain of events that eventually led to his son's death and his wife's murder at the hands of Sumin.]]

The manhwa was originally published by ''[[https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list?titleId=783769&page=4&sort=ASC Naver]]'' on November 1st, 2021, based on the original web novel by Sungsojak and adapted by LICO, and completed on December 13th, 2022 with 58 chapters. ''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/marry-my-husband/list?title_no=4572 Marry My Husband]]'' is available on Website/{{Webtoon}} in English. The epilogue began on Naver on December 20th, 2022, and finished on February 21st, 2023 with 10 chapters. [[Series/MarryMyHusband A live-action TV drama]] based on the webnovel began airing weekly in South Korea on January 1st, 2024, and is available for streaming (outside of South Korea and China) on Amazon Prime.

** [[spoiler: Minhwan's father blames Jiwon over his family's downfall, just because she wouldn't marry his son . Jiwon shuts him down by pointing out he played bench-sitter as his wife tormented Sumin, in turn driving Sumin to start a chain of events that eventually led to his son's death and his wife's murder at the hands of Sumin.]]

* NeverMyFault: Sumin's main pitfall is that she always blames others, and never looks at herself when she's at fault. She blames the bullies while [[spoiler: she set them up]], and repetitively throws Minhwan under the bus for the [[spoiler: peanut allergy incident]].
** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} when she continues to do this [[spoiler:after murdering her mother-in-law and hitting Jihyeok (Huiyeon in the webnovel) with a car trying to kill Jiwon.]]

* AnAesop: Despite what it may look like, there are people around you who care about you. Jiwon initially vowed to use her second chance at life to get revenge on Sumin and Minhwan for what they did to her in the first timeline, but as she develops new friendships and makes healthy changes to her life, Jiwon comes to see all the wonderful people in her life who cared for her and decides to shift focus onto her new-found happiness instead.
** Trauma is not an excuse for making bad decisions. Sumin believes she can get away with treating Jiwon as poorly as she does since [[spoiler:Jiwon’s mom had an affair with Sumin’s father and led to Sumin’s mother taking her anger out on her daughter]]. She also believes she’s entitled to a carefree, luxurious lifestyle since her past was so traumatic. However, this doesn’t justify anything she does towards Jiwon or anyone else, or excuse her from any crimes she commits for the sake of her goals.

* AdaptedOut: Yura Oh, a minor character in the web novel who’s in love with Jihyeok and drove Huiyeon to attempt suicide in the past, is completely cut from the manhwa.

The manhwa was originally published by ''[[https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list?titleId=783769&page=4&sort=ASC Naver]]'' on November 1st, 2021, based on the original web novel by Sungsojak and adapted by LICO, and completed on December 13th, 2022 with 58 chapters. ''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/marry-my-husband/list?title_no=4572 Marry My Husband]]'' is available on Website/{{Webtoon}} in English. The epilogue began on Naver on December 20th, 2022, and finished on February 21st, 2023 with 10 chapters. A live-action TV drama based on the webnovel began airing weekly in South Korea on January 1st, 2024, and is available for streaming (outside of South Korea and China) on Amazon Prime.

The manhwa was originally published by ''[[https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list?titleId=783769&page=4&sort=ASC Naver]]'' on November 1st, 2021, based on the original web novel by Sungsojak and adapted by LICO, and completed on December 13th, 2022 with 58 chapters. ''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/marry-my-husband/list?title_no=4572 Marry My Husband]]'' updates each Monday on Website/{{Webtoon}} in English. The epilogue began on Naver on December 20th, 2022, and finished on February 21st, 2023 with 10 chapters.

37-year old terminal cancer patient Jiwon Kang discovers that her husband, Minhwan Park, has been cheating with her best friend, Sumin Jeong. Jiwon is furious and upset over the revelation that the two people she cared about the most stabbed her in the back. However, after her husband accidentally kills her, she is miraculously transported 10 years back in time: back to her old job at U&K Foods, when she, Minhwan and Sumin were colleagues together. Not wanting history to repeat itself, Jiwon is determined to turn her life around and make the best out of her second chance. But not before giving her now former best friend what she deserves: Minhwan.

!!Tropes

* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: By the epilogue, Jihyeok and Jiwon have twin boys named Jiwan and Jiwoon, another boy named Ji-ung, and an adopted daughter named Ara.]]

** Huiyeon becomes one during [[spoiler:the press conference, when Minhwan demands that Jiwon explain why she moved next door to Jihyeok's apartment as soon as she broke up with him. Huiyeon bursted in to provide the paperwork for said apartment as well as evidence that Minhwan was stalking Jiwon. The timeliness of her entrance gets commented on by Jiwon]]:

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sumin, the 'best friend' of Jiwon. She thinks 'out loud' about how she sought Jiwon out to make herself look good, and during high school set up bullies against her during the incident with Eunho Baek. As Minhwan is also this to a certain extent, Jiwon comments internally that they were made for each other.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Sumin does this after realizing her contract with U&K Foods isn't going to be renewed [[spoiler: after getting caught deliberately not warning customers about the peanut dressing in the company's new salad kits, causing a customer to have an allergic reaction. Sumin sends a package of more salad kits with peanut dressing to the man she knows is allergic to it under the name of Juran Yang. Not only do Jiwon and Jihyeok Yu ''immediately'' see through it, the former also says she should visit the man in the hospital, who of course still remembers her voice from over the phone. Sumin had forgotten that Jiwon had been her 'best friend' ever since high school, so she knew what Sumin was up to as that lies in her characteristics. This forces Sumin to fake a pregnancy so that Minhwan has no choice to marry her]].

* DontCelebrateJustYet: Jiwon thought all her problems with Minhwan and Sumin were solved after [[spoiler:they got married.]] Unfortunately, neither one of them had any intention of leaving Jiwon alone. Minhwan still yearns for Jiwon to the point of playing breakup songs ad nauseam and trying to contact her outside of work to point of stalking, while Sumin is still jealous of Jiwon and her success and terrified that she’ll take Minhwan back, to the point of [[spoiler:trying to run her over with a car when Sumin is arrested for her mother-in-law’s murder]]. Moreover, there's no guarantee that fated events would happen to them and not innocents that Jiwon had interacted with [[spoiler:like Juran.]]

* FakePregnancy: [[spoiler: Sumin does this when she's backed into a corner after the salad kit incident, knowing Minhwan's conservative family will force him to marry her instead of Jiwon. Jiwon sees through this, though, because she knows Minhwan can't have babies. Minhwan finds out about the ruse during the press conference, and leads to his discovery of being infertile later]].

* {{Foil}}: Sumin and Jiwon, as noted before. Sumin is the upbeat GirlyGirl with bright eyes, who tries to manipulate people around her, only to fail again and again. Jiwon, meanwhile, has dark eyes, is a lot more reserved and less prone to OpenMouthInsertFoot than Sumin is, but is way better in manipulating others.

** As such, Sumin and Minhwan's relationship is filled with them backstabbing eachother, whereas Jiwon's budding romance with Jihyeok Yu shows healthy signs.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: During the final chapter, Huiyeon is the one who ends up catching the bouquet at the wedding. Sure enough, Eunho ends proposing to her in the epilogue.]]

* HumiliationConga: Both Minhwan and Sumin are throughly humiliated during the second half of the story:
** Minhwan’s downfall begins when Sumin claims to be pregnant with his child; because of his conservative parents, he’s forced to marry her. Their marriage is quite awful, with most of their time together spent arguing. Minhwan longs for Jiwon once more, which is what leads him to try to break them up by exposing Jihyeok’s connection to the chairman. The ensuing press conference gets him fired and reveals to him that Sumin was never pregnant. Soon after, his mother collapses; he discovers he’s infertile; and his debt gets so bad he’s near broke. Finally, Minhwan snaps and decides to kill Sumin, only to end up crashing the car he was going to use for the murder on his way to see his dead mother, and then falls into the river below and drowns.
** Sumin is forced to lie about being pregnant so she can continue using Minhwan for her revenge plan. But marriage life is tougher than she thought, as she is basically a slave to both Minhwan and her mother-in-law. Her only solace is a woman (Jiwon) who she thought Minhwan was cheating on her with, only to become her new “friend” that she can consult with. After the press conference, Sumin finds out Minhwan is infertile and rubs it in her mother-in-law’s face, leaving her as she goes into a stroke. When it looks like her mother-in-law will recover and expose her, Sumin kills her. She’s arrested during Minhwan and her mother-in-law’s funeral, but escapes and tries to run over Jiwon with a car, only to hit Jihyeok instead. She’s found guilty of murder and attempted murder and is sentenced to life in prison. Finally, Sumin tries to send Jiwon’s mother to her daughter to show Jihyeok that Jiwon comes from a bad family but that ends with Jiwon finally cutting Sumin off for good.
* IWantGrandkids: Jaok is rather aggressive about having her daughter-in-law have a grandson, tormenting her with foul tasting remedies, constant visits to the shrine, and numerous doctor examinations. All of this is fruitless [[spoiler:because Minhwan is infertile.]]

** A chilling one happens later in the story. [[spoiler:When Jiwon in her first life confronted Minhwan and Sumin, Sumin tearfully said the living have to keep on living and Jiwon was going to die anyway. In the second timeline, after Minhwan’s mother was hospitalized for a stroke Sumin witnessed and did nothing about, fearing that her mother-in-law will get better and expose her, she induces an air embolism. In a calm, cold voice, she repeats exactly what she said to Jiwon.]]

* OfficeRomance: Between Jiwon and Jihyeok. The latter is aggressive in regard to his advances towards Jiwon at first, but that's because [[spoiler:he loved her since college, enough to commit suicide after she died.]] He eventually mellows out and becomes a solid anchor for Jiwon while she carries out her revenge scheme, [[spoiler:eventually getting together after the press conference. Although the trope goes dead shortly after, since Jihyeok quits the company to start his own security firm.]]
** Sumin and Minhwan are also this, since they started their affair after meeting each other as coworkers.

* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler: With the reveal Jihyeok is also a time traveler]], a lot of his actions in previous chapters are seen in a new light.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler:As their marriage disintegrates, both Sumin and and Minhwan come to believe that Jiwon deliberately set them up together to screw them over. It's presented as part of how they still refuse to take responsibility for their actions, and they both get Jiwon's motives wrong (they think it's because she wanted to hook up with Jihyeok), but otherwise they're right.]]

* SiblingYinYang: [[spoiler: Huiyeon and Jihyeok Yu. Huiyeon is sociable, spontaneous and a little bit of a GenkiGirl whereas her brother Jihyeok is TheStoic]]. Jiwon even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this when she discovers it.

* StayInTheKitchen: Gyeong-uk frequently espouses these views, usually directing them at Juran who he dislikes for working while she has a young child at home.

* SweetBaker: Eunho is a NiceGuy who Jiwon could have had a happy relationship with in high school if Sumin hadn’t sabotaged it. He’s still in love with Jiwon but later [[spoiler:falls for Huiyeon]].

* TallDarkAndSnarky: Jiwon's superior, Jihyeok Yu, is tall, has dark hair and wears dark clothing, and is more than capable of delivering snide comments to those he wants to see gone.

* YouCantFightFate: A mild version and only at the start. At first, Jiwon manages to avoid a burn in her house, but then gets it anyway due to spilling food. She doesn't trip in Jihyeok Yu's office, but does when exiting the elevator. After noticing this, she manages to [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this: Minhwan sells his J Pharma stocks (which Jiwon predicted to go well) for MW Industry stocks (the firm that would later crash) and the soup Sumin meant to spill on Jiwon’s shirt is spilled on Minhwan's instead. She eventually realizes that while fate can’t be fought it can be exchanged.
** The concept does return when Juran Yang starts to experience similar events from Jiwon’s life, such as discovering her husband cheating on her and developing cancer cells in her stomach. Jiwon is able to help Juran before it’s too late, which brings her to the realization that she must replicate other elements from the previous timeline to assure others don’t take on her original fate. She does this by texting Minhwan, pretending to be some other girl, and becoming his “mistress”, like Sumin was in the previous timeline.

** Sumin’s ultimate fate is this as well, [[spoiler:she ends up in prison for murdering Jaok and hitting Jihyeok (Huiyeon in the webnovel) just like Minhwan did for murdering Jiwon in the first timeline.]]

* OfficeRomance: One is about to be set up between Jiwon and her superior. The slightly different thing is that they start out neutral, and the other makes the move first [[spoiler:because he loved her since college, enough to commit suicide after she died.]]

** Minhwan is an abusive partner who resorts to stalking Jiwon [[spoiler:when she dumps him]], and neither have any redeeming qualities whatsoever.

* HateSink: Sumin is a BitchInSheepsClothing who does everything in her power to make Jiwon miserable, Minhwan is an abusive partner who resorts to stalking Jiwon when she dumps him, and neither have any redeeming qualities whatsoever.

* SweetBaker: Eunho is a NiceGuy who Jiwon could have had a happy relationship with in high school if Sumin hadn’t sabotaged it. He’s still in love with Jiwon but later [[spoiler:falls for Huiyeon.]]

* TroubledAbuser: Sumin is awful towards Jiwon, mostly because [[spoiler:her father left her and her mother for Jiwon's mother. Sumin blames Jiwon for that and for the fact that while Jiwon's father still loved and doted on her, Sumin had to deal with her abusive mother instead.]] It doesn't excuse her actions towards Jiwon or anyone else, however.

* AdaptedOut: Yura Oh, a minor major character in the web novel who’s in love with Jihyeok and drove Huiyeon to attempt suicide in the past, is completely cut from the manhwa.
* ADeadlyAffair: When Jiwon finds out Minhwan and Sumin are sleeping together after she comes home from the hospital, Minhwan slaps her so hard she hits her head and dies. [[spoiler: Minhwan was arrested for it, but it’s unclear what happened to Sumin, aside from her social media being deleted and not responding to any calls]].